Failed to initialise build environment

Question

I am trying to build "yocto" with "jethro" (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Releases) version but when I try initialise build environment it gives following error.

Error: 'meta-poky/conf' must be a directory containing local.conf & 
bblayers.conf

I found out that meta-poky folder is not available in jethro version. What am I doing wrong in initialisation?

I tried with later version krogoth and it is working fine with it.

Answer 1

meta-yocto was indeed renamed meta-poky in Krogoth. There is code to handle your configuration in the upgrade case (going from jethro to krogoth) but downgrade probably isn't tested: I'm guessing you did a build with a newer release and then jethro.

This could maybe be fixed by just modifying conf/templateconf.cfg & conf/bblayers.conf manually (to refer to "meta-yocto" instead of "meta-poky"). Alternatively you could move your whole conf/ out of the way, re-generate a template configuration with . oe-init-build-env and then redo any local configuration you had.